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Browsing by Subject "Career decision-making"

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    Career decision-making competence: formulation and testing of a measurement model.
    (2011-10) Bubany, Shawn Timothy
    The study of career decision-making (CDM) has generated a number of constructs and assessment tools that have served to inform and facilitate the delivery of effective interventions. With the intention of promoting greater conceptual clarity and consistency, the construct CDM competence is proposed and defined here as success in completing CDM tasks typically required of individuals during certain developmental periods and within a specific sociocultural context. Toward the central goal of developing a valid measurement model of CDM competence, this study first used EFA to explore the structure of CDM competence to guide the formulation of a measurement model and then tested the CDM model in relation to latent constructs of social and general competence with structural equation modeling (SEM). For female (n= 228), male (n = 143), and entire (n = 371) samples, the EFA resulted in the retention of two factors that were interpreted as a general CDM competence factor and a distress and inadequacy of information factor. Comparison of separate EFA results for females and males suggested the variable of self-exploration may play a greater role in the structure of CDM competence for females than males. From the SEM, fit indices suggested that the data poorly fit the models with scales representing CDM, interpersonal and general competence latent factors for the female, male, and total samples.
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    Factors influencing African American high school students in career decision self-efficacy and engineering related goal intentions.
    (2009-10) Austin, Chandra Yvette
    A current challenge in the United States is to increase African American pursuit of engineering careers. Minority students generally tend to be under-represented in such careers, as indicated by the National Academy of Engineering, in The Engineer of 2020-Visions of Engineering in the New Century. This study explores the career decision self-efficacy (Lent, Brown & Hackett, 1993) and Engineering related goal intentions of African American high school students. There are a variety of reasons explaining the lack of choice of engineering as a career, and these were investigated. This study assessed the effect of specific influences (ethnic identity, demographic factors, ability, school factors, Math/Science confidence, Math/Science self-efficacy, Math/Science interest, and family support) on career decision self-efficacy and engineering related goal-intentions. Data from a survey of 396 African American students' grades 9-12, low-middle income level, in a southeastern school were used in the study. Results show that career decision self-efficacy among students studied is influenced by: Math/science confidence, ethnic identity, family relations, school factors, and socioeconomic status. Factors influencing engineering related goal intentions were very similar but each variable did not contribute the same amount of variance. Results also show that gender was not significant in either dependent variable. Other implications and recommendations relating to the variables are presented.